Auditory and Visual Hallucinations in Normal (Non-Psychotic) Adults

In his theory, Julian Jaynes describes the role hallucinations played in an earlier mentality, prior to the development of subjective consciousness. He predicted that hallucinations were more common in the normal population than was known at the time, and this has been confirmed in literally hundreds of studies over the past three decades. Below is a small sample of research supporting this aspect of Jaynes's theory.